Empire State Building

On Oct. 14, 2012, Austrian Felix Baumgartner did what no human had ever done before: He ascended in a helium balloon all the way to the stratosphere, 24 miles above the Earth's surface, jumped out and survived, free falling for almost 4-1/2 minutes before deploying his parachute. The highest sky-dive ever made also broke the record for falling velocity, at 843 mph.

Mexican artist Dulce Chacón became fascinated by Baumgartner's space-dive and by the attention it received: It was viewed live on YouTube by more than 9.5 million people and was recorded in photographs and video by countless observers.

Chacón's artistic response to the professional daredevil's stunt is...

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